Bob King, the president of the UAW, is calling Alan Mulally out on his recent stock bonus of nearly $57 million. China is going to make its own GPS available for ...
@americanbandwidth My point is that you shouldn't consider 2 Asian
countries the same, which you did. Gm has already changed and you have been
living under a rock if you haven't noticed, The Volt won NA car of the year
from both public and private entities. The Chevy Cruze is one of the
highest reviewed compacts on the road beating out Corolla and Civic. The
Cadillac brand is the fastest growing luxury brand in the states. Buick
outsold Lexus in February. We still make the best fullsized pickups
@americanbandwidth Yes Ford is better in every sense of the word when
compared to Chevy, not GM though as a whole, too many branches. Ford's also
I believe number 2 in quality at CR and number 1 or 2 for brand loyalty.
Ford makes an excellent product these days and they are the number 1
selling car in many segments in Europe. All of Ford's passenger cars are or
will be German engineered in the next 2 years, except for the Taurus.
Trucks will stay US derived. Check out Truedelta com and learn
@stanbernadino The true advantage of the Capitalist system, or Free Market,
is the most simple method of voting ever invented. You don't like it? You
don't buy it. If Anyone doesn't like a Deal they can just not do business.
In a Regulated Market the controls set up don't allow the Free Market to
function, it removes the chance for the consumer to demand a better Deal by
forcing the same consumer to invest in businesses that can't sell their
products to the very people paying all the bills.
@flatblackstrat What's your point? That GM makes a product as bad as
Chinese products? That Gm makes a product as good as the Japanese? GM makes
a crap product, it has for years and they refuse to change expecting the
Americans to buy their crap cars or to get Government to take the money
from them anyway with out giving them a crap car. That is what they do in
Budapest not the USA. The Free Market is why Japanese and German cars are
the best, the consumer forced a better product into being
Ah yes, the ethics of socialists who don't create wealth but who think that
it's somehow okay to take it away from those who do create it and then have
the added perversity of wanting to cap their salaries. That's why I just
can't buy any car made by the UAW. By-the-way, the ones creating the wealth
are NOT the union workers, the wealth creation comes from the ones with the
intellectual capital, the ideas, and the risk-takers, not the cozy salary
recipients who do a job anyone else can do.
@americanbandwidth I see what you're saying, even though a completely 'free
market' system will eventually fail when companies merge creating
monopolies where you have no choice but to buy from the company that does
things you dislike, and charges too much for the products you need. But it
doesn't negate the fact that it's bad PR these days for companies to be
paying CEO's that much, because it will hurt their business when people
become disgusted with these ridiculous benefits packages.
@flatblackstrat Oh I agree, While in Europe Ford was the choice of everyone
I know there. The Mondeo may be the best car for the money on Earth.
Vauxhall and Citron were the butt of all the jokes. I'm not debating the
dollar per cost value of a Ford, only that they took cash from the
Government and have yet to repay it. Therefore I omitted them from my rant.
My issue is the dishonesty of Chrysler and GM. Ford at least does make a
good product, for the most part.
Right, 57M for one year salary is way too much. That equals every Customer
who bought FORD pay $10 to Mulally. Ford still has a lot of debt to pay
off. Executives of Japanese, Geman and Korean car maker got paid much less.
Mulally's and BILL FORD's efforts was substantial but mainly. Recovry of
Ford is the result of all employee's sacrifices and loyal customers like
me. I would not buy FORD again. immoral
@cosmicdust22 I'm sure Ford's turnaround has nothing to them pumping out
some of the best quality cars in the US! If your math is right, $10 per car
is pretty insignificant. I don't think you give Mulally enough credit. He
stuck his neck out there as well and made some crucial decisions that has
brought Ford where they are and has saved a lot of jobs!
WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE CAR INDUSTRY INCLUDING PARTS AND ALL
THE ASSEMBLY IT'S ALL A COHESIVE PARTNERSHIP IN THE WORLD ECONOMY AND ALL
THESE CARS INCLUDING AMERICAN CARS ARE INFLUENCED NOW BUY OTHER CAR
INDUSTRY MANUFACTURERS AND THEIR DESIGNERS,ENGINEERS AND OTHER SUCH TYPE
INFLUENCES ITS ALL RELEVANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@undeadkillers IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THE ONE OF THE PLACES
AMERICAN CAR MAKERS GET PARTS IS CHINA SO THE CAR STILL HAS LOWER QUALITY
FOREIGN PARTS IN THEM AND THE EXAMPLE TO ME WAS THE SO CALLED PART SHORTAGE
THAT EMERGING NOW THATS BECAUSE ALL OF THE WORLDS CAR MAKERS ARE EXCHANGING
PARTS FUNNY ISN'T IT ???
@USA4July1776 I doubt the guy is a socialist, the problem here is that in
the midst of massive cost-cutting and job outsourcing by large
corporations, CEO's making these ridiculous amounts of money while
thousands of middle class people are being laid off makes a company looks
really bad.
@flatblackstrat You're right, I didn't mean to leave them out of the
equation. However Ford makes a better product according to consumer
reports. I still wouldn't buy a Ford Either. I was speaking mainly of
American Car Companies. However, Your point is a damn Good one. Land Rover
sucks.
@USA4July1776 the uaw doesnt make cars. every time some idiot says they
wont uy a car "made by the uaw" all you are doing is hurting american
carmakers and the people that make them. yes the uaw should burn in hell,
but its not going away and there is nothing the big 3 can do about it.
@undeadkillers GM's are Chinese cars, all the parts are made in China or
Japan. GM have the 2nd worst track record of all car makers on earth, only
Chrysler is worse. Tata makes a better car than GM and it's $2500 and made
in India.
@americanbandwidth Don't ever put China and Japan in the same boat.
Completely different countries and one has much higher production standards
than the other.
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